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This piece was first published in Reuters Health. President Randi Belisomo is a contributor. Sharing your “bucket list” could be easier than discussing end-of-life medical preferences, and it might be just as useful to your physician, researchers suggest. If you, like many Americans, have a “bucket list,” your doctor would be well-served by learning its […]

This piece was first published in Reuters Health. President Randi Belisomo is a contributor. To humanize the intensive care unit and comfort families of the dying, Canadian doctors have found a way to elicit happier memories at the bedside. They’re creating Word Clouds – and they say the practice is valuable for them, too, because it helps […]

This piece was first published in Reuters Health. President Randi Belisomo is a contributor. Ohio researchers say today’s seat belts weren’t designed to protect the smaller, frailer seniors who account for tens of millions of drivers in the U.S alone. “When seat belts were first designed four decades ago, safety dummies tested in car crash simulations resembled […]

This piece was first published in Reuters Health. President Randi Belisomo is a contributor. Cancer specialists and primary care physicians are not communicating very well about the end-of-life concerns of the patients they share – and according to one new study, they often rely on those patients to convey information back and forth. Researchers in the Netherlands […]

This piece was first published in Reuters Health. President Randi Belisomo is a contributor. Teens with dying parents don’t benefit as much from hospice services as older members of the family do, a new study suggests. The needs of teenagers with parents in hospice are often not met or even assessed, the study found – even though […]